New visit to Albert Docks!

Thursday, April 10th 2013: A little visit at the Merseyside maritime museum and the Slavery museum

The fourth day of our trip, we went back to Liverpool in order to visit one of a famous museum of Albert Docks: The maritime and the Slavery museums. We began first by visiting maritime museum and after, the slavery museum.

Merseyside maritime museum:

In this part of the museum, we saw lot of ship model, especially the Titanic’s model and one of his twin’s brothers: the RMS Lusitania. But not only! We have seen items which were on board and were found during the discovery of Titanic’s wreckage. Moreover, there were many of war navy materials (like an imposing German U-boat’s torpedo, a canon called Mark I, 1918, British’s helmet, sonare, radio etc…). But what we review the most was different type boat’s model of all size and all forms. It was a short visit but quite amazing!

Slavery museum

For many of us, we thought the bigger part of the museum was the Slavery museum. It located one floor above maritime museum. Here we saw a reconstitution of African’s boxes, lot of masquerade and stabbing. That we remembered in this part of this museum was a short movie which show the conditions on boat for the slave who were transferred to America in order to work on plantation: that was horrible… But what caught our intentions was a sort of board which show the different famous black American who fought for the integration of black American’s in the United States (like Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks…). I think most of us prefer this part of the museum instead of maritime museum, but both of them were interesting and amazing!

 Anthony.